frustrated - Story 51834 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, cramped apartment seemed to close in around Maria. She felt a prickling sensation on her skin, as though invisible needles were piercing her. She paced the living room, the worn rug doing little to soften her footsteps. His secret, hidden, stashed away…

She needed air. She grabbed her coat and slammed the door behind her, the noise snapping in the air. She needed to walk. She needed answers.

Emotion: frustrated

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -1.56 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.64

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion frustrated. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 frustrated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the frustrated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the frustrated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.344
`P`	0.302
`exasper`	0.257
`aggravated`	0.254
`que`	0.252

Suppressed:

`unfolding`	-0.242
`otre`	-0.226
`latter`	-0.220
`☺️`	-0.216
`soon`	-0.212